Archive for May, 2006

A wee bit of Scotland in Oregon

Friday, May 26th, 2006

 
Dream Golf The Making of Bandon Dunes By Steven Goodwin Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Hardbound $24.95
 
 
Review By BILL DUNCAN
Seldom is a non-fiction book, particularly one about [...]

Homegrown tomato almost worth $64

Friday, May 19th, 2006

By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
The long winterized spring has finally ended and my usual 35 tomato plants are beginning to take root in the black mud that is my garden soil in Roseburg’s Riversdale area. No real hint of the familiar yellow blossom as yet, but then these May days of late [...]

Anna Jarvis fought against commercializing Mother’s Day

Friday, May 19th, 2006

By BILL DUNCAN
The View From Here
In this world of instant commercialism, one would have to be under a rock not to know that Sunday is Mother’s Day. It is considered a national holiday, but not even mothers get Monday off as with other national holidays.
I might even be so bold as to say, especially mothers. [...]

Pay back time for America’s veterans

Friday, May 5th, 2006

By Bill Duncan The View From Here
We go through life taking most things for granted. As a World War II and Korean war veteran, I volunteer with the VA Voluntary Service program and spend my volunteer hours at the Roseburg VA Hospital. I do this, I convince myself, as payback for the VA hospital [...]